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The long dress of sequins or crystal beads had replaced the bouffant dress. Long-waisted dresses, often with an overblouse, replaced the fitted waistline and full skirt.

The typical daytime look - consisting of a bulbous hat over a high bouffant coiffure, silhouettes with deep armholes an wide sleeves, and a rounded jacket that tapered in at the hem.

Few of the most famous elements and looks from the 60’s include: Trends of decades are basically named and written about on the basis of the famous looks that people opted for and designers provided.

Even though this time period saw the maximum experimentation in terms of colors, and sizes of clothing, it wasn’t seen as a revolutionary period as everything revolved around tweaking the existing. It swept into all parts of life, especially clothing. The British Invasion didn’t stop with The Beatles. For the first time in the 19th Century, London, not Paris, was the center of the fashion world. Wouldn’t be hard to believe that expose was word coined in the 60’s. Women were showing more skin than ever before. It’s almost like the 1950s bottled everyone up so much that the late 1960s exploded like an old pressure cooker. The foray into fantasy would not have been believed by people just a decade earlier. Woman wore unbelievably short skirts and men wore tunics and capes. Psychedelic, tie-dye shirts and long hair and beards. More radically innovative fashion styles, like little girl androgynous looks for women, swept away the ruling likes of the sophisticated sweater girls of the sixties.ġ960s fashion was bi-polar in just about every way. The ideology of designing for only mature and elite members was let down as the influence and need to cater to the teenage and young adult market was increasingly important. The fashion trends in the decade broke many fashion traditions by mirroring socials movements that were making headlines in that period. This was for the first time that fashion was driven around the youth market and featured a wide number of diversified trends. This makes the 1960’s one of the most decade for fashion. This means that the 1960’s was a decade where both- sophisticated designs inspired from the 50’s and rather bold and revolting designs of the new generation were equally famous.

A decade of opposites yet the one that hosted them both. The ruling tenure of trends and brands was going to see a shortening of age and all of this happened in the 1960’s. The transition of fashion from one decade to another played itself like a song on repeat.